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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 and 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bill know so much of the triffids?
(a) He has one in his home.
(b) We works with them.
(c) He developed them.
(d) He grows them.

2. What does the main character admit the triffids did for him?
(a) Saved his life.
(b) Made him wealthy.
(c) Made him popular.
(d) Made him happy.

3. What is one theory of how the triffids appeared?
(a) They were planted by a radical group.
(b) They were spontaneously generated.
(c) They were planted by gardeners.
(d) They were magical.

4. What does the narrator note occurred on May 7th?
(a) There was a solar eclipse.
(b) A comet fell to Earth.
(c) The Earth passed through comet debris.
(d) There was a lunar eclipse.

5. What do people learn about triffids that surprises and disgusts them slightly?
(a) They are carnivores.
(b) They are animals.
(c) They are full of germs.
(d) They are diseased.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Walter believe triffids strike the head?

2. Where did the main character, William Masen, grow up?

3. What is the name of the hospital in which the narrator is residing?

4. What time does the clock chime, which indicates a problem to the narrator?

5. Where did Bill first see a triffid?

(see the answer key)

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